I have been asked to present a short overview of legal implications of Raw Milk this Sunday at the AVMA Convention here in Seattle. Below is the outline. There will be one video too. I also have been asked to re-post my literature review on the Pros and Cons of Raw Milk. I am also posting
American Bar Association
Damn, great to see the ABA is finally paying attention to my blog – errr, blawg
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Perhaps I’ll make it into the Top 100 this year?
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I Never Thought I Would Live to See the Day – Food Safety in the Age of Obama
In 16 years of litigating thousands of foodborne illness cases and taking over $500,000,000 from food companies, I really may live to see the government "put me out of business." Here are the talking points for today’s Food Safety Working Group Event. Now the only issues will be financing and execution.
PRESIDENT’S FOOD SAFETY WORKING
Obama’s Food Safety Working Group to Take a Bite Out of Food Safety
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The President’s Food Safety Working Group will announce today at 1:30 Eastern Time that the Food and Drug Administration and the Agriculture Department will adopt new standards targeted at combating foodborne illnesses in the United States. According to a pre-release, under the new rules:
• The FDA will help the food industry establish better tracing
So, how does your garden grow?
We have had very warm and dry weather over the last six weeks and the garden has exploded! We have already eaten lettuce, peas, carrots, beet greens, basil and radishes. The corn is well over knee high well before the 4th of July. We will soon be overwhelmed by tomatoes of every color and type.
Interview with James F. Neale, Esquire – Food Illness Defense Guy
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I got the heads-up that Jim had been interviewed by Law 360 and actually said something nice about me. Thinking that it could not be so – since I once suggested that his skills as a defense lawyer reminded me of the kids that looked so closely at the details that “they burned the wings
FSIS – Follow Your Own Damn Rules and Tell the Public Where the E. coli O157:H7-tainted JBS Swift Meat Went.
On August 18, 2008 after years of hand wringing, the FSIS finally put public health before “proprietary” business interests when it made the following rule:
9 C.F.R. § 390.10 Availability of Lists of Retail Consignees during Meat or Poultry Product Recalls
The Administrator of the Food Safety and Inspection Service will make publicly available the
Label Instructions and Cooking Times for Retail Frozen Ground Beef Patties
We were proud to support the research on this important topic. Click below to download.
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Thirty-Two Years Later
A dear friend, and former campaign staffer (I had one) sent me the below flyer (only did one) when I ran and was elected to the Pullman City Council in 1977 by 63 votes! I was 19 years old. I have not changed much at all.
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Of course, I do know it is not effect, but
Who Poisoned the Cookie Dough?
What if the cookie dough E. coli outbreak actually happened this way?
At 10:00 PM last night between yet another story about Michael Jackson’s death, a foreign Network begin airing a video taken inside a manufacturing facility showing someone treating a batch of cookie dough with an unknown liquid. There is a claim that this